Court notes: 5 plea deals; state will not pursue 2 cases

Five Marion County defendants entered plea deals while the State Attorney's Office announced it would not pursue charges against two others.

Crimes include sexual battery, burglary of a dwelling, escape and child neglect. Defendants who entered pleas received anywhere from three months in the Marion County Jail to two years in state prison.

Santiago Baerga Jr.

The State Attorney's Office announced Oct. 18 it would not pursue a charge against Baerga, 20, of sexual battery with force likely to cause injury. The victim told multiple versions of the incident with multiple inconsistencies, according to a state memo.

Eboni Darcel Porter

Porter, 22, of Ocala, pleaded no contest Oct. 19 to burglary of a dwelling while armed with assault or battery. She was sentenced to six months at the Marion County Jail, with credit for nearly five months served, and four years of probation.

Porter was arrested in June, along with her mother and sister, and accused of a home invasion robbery in the 5600 block of Southeast 102nd Place Road. Porter knocked on the door and asked for a man who was not at home. When the woman who answered the door tried to close it, Porter put her foot in the doorway. She and her co-defendants then forced their way into the house, according to law enforcement. Once inside Porter and co-defendants asked for cash and again for the man. Two people were shot and received non-life-threatening injuries. Her mother and sister still have cases pending, according to court records.

Hansel Costa-Rosa

The State Attorney's Office announced Oct. 19 it would not pursue charges of burglary of a dwelling with assault, false imprisonment and aggravated battery on a pregnant victim against Costa-Rosa, 36, of Belleview. There were witness and victim issues with the case.

Revantae Deandrae Williams

Williams, 24, of Ocala, pleaded guilty Oct. 23 to an escape charge. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

He was arrested in July after escaping from a re-entry center, 2006 NE Eighth Ave. He asked a woman if he could use her phone and hide in her backyard. Williams said he was having family issues and talked to his wife on the woman's phone. He turned himself in after being out of custody for 44 minutes.

Raymone A. Cummings

Cummings, 37, of Citra, pleaded no contest Oct. 25 to unlawful possession by a sex predator of unmarked or altered driver's license. He was sentenced to five years of probation.

He was arrested in June after he removed the "predator" label from his driver's license. He told a Marion County Sheriff's Office deputy it was "embarrassing." He used a pen to scratch the word off. Cummings was released in May 2008 after serving time for sexual battery, lewd and lascivious battery and aggravated child abuse.

James Bryan Kenrick

Kenrick, 26, of Ocklawaha, pleaded no contest Oct. 25 to a charge of child neglect with great bodily harm. He was sentenced to two years in state prison followed by five years probation.

He was arrested in June 2015 and accused of abusing his 14-month-old daughter. She suffered numerous bruises, bruising at the back of her skull, a fractured skull and bleeding on her brain. Kenrick claims his daughter fell face-first off a small ledge and struck her head. He is not allowed to have contact with the victim, according to court records.

Robert Luis Roan

Roan, 54, of Dunnellon, pleaded no contest Oct. 25 to charges of two counts of no valid driver's license and one count of giving a false name or identity to law enforcement officers. He was sentenced to three months in the Marion County Jail.

He was arrested in October after his vehicle was stopped for an expired registration decal. The Marion County Sheriff's Office deputy who pulled him over ran a check on his license and realized it was suspended. Roan's license has been suspended a dozen times for refusing to submit to breath, urine or blood tests, failure to pay financial obligations and being a habitual traffic violator.